They might even subcontract the same while label app company for their banking app, meaning that you get the same app every time with different logos.

Wow, that makes Google products seem supported for ever.

No, you misunderstood the point of the poster and decided to bloviate about unrelated things.

This has nothing with perpetual growth and everything with training your population to defend these practices with "oh, they're just companies, don't use it if you don't like it!" instead of fighting back.

Vigilante justice, you say? Now you are talking!! We certainly are not going to see things get better on their own, and the government definitely isn’t going to take the side of consumers.

My government does it a lot.

Right, expecting that any government would approve a channel for continental scale money laundering and tax evasion is not realistic, neither would any sane person prefer it.

A payment system that works in one out of 25 countries of EU isn't really a credible alternative to a world-wide spanning Visa/MC ecosystem.

Wero should eventually become the interoperability layer in Europe and beyond.

The same way AliPay+ has enabled interoperability among 50+ mobile wallets globally, mostly in Asian countries.

Does Digital Euro have a chance to pass? I felt like the industry is really putting their weight behind Weero instead.

Well, at least Wero is already working in a bunch of countries...

It's a bit different, as Digital Euro will be a bit more "digital cash" and allow offline payments, and, IIRC, won't depend on your bank.

The bad part about Wero is, at least in some countries, it depends on your bank, and you need that banks app (and the bank needs to support it). I'm on Bizum, that's a similar system on Spain that's being joined to the Wero system (they started the partnership in February or so, but I don't know the progress of it or when will it be joined).

These are two different use cases.

The Digital Euro is intentionally designed to be as close to cash as possible. This is also why GNU Taler was not a viable candidate from the start (lacks offline transactions). You can also acquire and have Digital Euros without having a bank account.

Wero is explicitly a system backed by the private banking system, if you do not have a bank account, you cannot participate.

Can you walk us though your thought process here? Is piracy actually a problem? How is taking away ability to play offline a "logical conclusion"? Based on what evidence?

Corporations are monopolists and they are very angry about the fact you can just decompile any game and even port it to new platforms with AI.

Really? Can it automatically transcode lower qualities for downloads on Android yet?

I believe you forgot the massive hit that was Anthem.